NEW YORK, 02 July. - (ANA) - Ghislaine Maxwell has appeared via video in a US court after being arrested in relation to alleged sex crimes, conspiracy and perjury involving Jeffrey Epstein. 

 

The British socialite, who was arrested at a luxury hideaway in a small town in New Hampshire, appeared at the state’s federal courthouse. 

 

Meanwhile, US attorney Geoffrey Berman said Prince Andrew had “repeatedly declined our request” to schedule an interview for the investigation. 

 

The Daily Mail describes Ghislaine Maxwell as “unspeakable” and a “child sex groomer” after the arrest of the socialite in the US yesterday. 

 

Ghislaine Maxwell was hiding out in style: her luxury timber-framed home perched on 156 acres of New Hampshire pine and oak forests boasts dramatic views of Mount Sunapee's foothills, but is secluded enough to have kept her out of eyeshot of the tight-knit locals.

 

It was not until Thursday that other residents of this rural corner of New England knew her whereabouts, after FBI agents arrested her on charges she lured underage girls for the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse.

 

Maxwell's arrest is the latest twist in the saga of Epstein, a former math teacher-turned high-flying investor who was found hanged in a New York City jail last August in an apparent suicide while awaiting trial on federal charges of trafficking.

 

Prosecutors allege Maxwell lured girls for Epstein from 1994 through 1997.

 

Maxwell's home, identified to Reuters by a law enforcement source, has a narrow and treed-in half-mile dirt driveway with "No Trespassing" signs, obstructed by a padlocked metal fence. A real estate listing said the house has cathedral ceilings, a floor-to-ceiling fieldstone fireplace, and a "wall of glass" overlooking New Hampshire's hills.  - (ANA) -

 

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